# Dressing out a cat.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dressing-out-a-cat/828180>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 22, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dressing-out-a-cat/828180 "2019-01-22T02:58:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dressing-out-a-cat/828180/61 "2019-01-25T02:35:04Z")

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> [@Sigene](#):
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> Taught Anatomy for several years. You would think big cats are easier to work with…they aren’t. Go for the medium ones, much easier to dissect.
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> I also pulled many a tapeworm and scads of roundworms out of them, excellent learning opportunity!

Like ocelot medium, or robust housecat?

Perhaps the most famous cat research is Hubel & Wiesel’s discovery of receptive fields in cat retina. Alive but with electrodes in their eyes. Braaaap!

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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dressing-out-a-cat/828180/62 "2019-01-25T07:56:59Z")

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> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> Perhaps the most famous cat research is Hubel & Wiesel’s discovery of receptive fields in cat retina. Alive but with electrodes in their eyes. Braaaap!

Sara… Sara…  
Storms are brewin’ in your eyes…

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